Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1879 — Breaking a Texas Cow into Milking [ARTICLE]

Breaking a Texas Cow into Milking

Lfpptncott’s. The drollest scene on these inarches to breaking a cow into milking. Asa rule, cowboys despise milk, and prefer their tea and coffee without It But once In awhile an epicure demands the luxury, and a good-looking eow with calf is selected as the minister. She to laesoed by the horns, which are firmly fastened to an upright post On either side of her a fence fe then built with one rail missing at the height of the adder. 4 can to than introduced, and the operator, th uniting his arm through fibe aperture in the fence, proceeds to work. With truly feminine her side* against the fence” lfahe could get ather tormentor the milk SsfesfipSiSHS time the struggle is lees violent and after four or five compulsory milkings she stands comparatively quite, aud to promoted to the rank of milch cow, dollars more than wayo, and now one of the tribe’schiafe, to to receive the order of St Michael and St George in recognition of his services to the British government to -'i " ''-a ' > ■ *' i ”